Recommendations for sour dough making/bread baking books?
I recently started making bread starter by myself to bake bread. Can anyone recommend bread recipe books with sour dough or other naturally occurring yiest making?
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If you want a recipe right now, google Carl Sourdough and follow the link to the Oregon Trail sourdough page. Lots of good info there, and for the price of some stamps, you can get yourself a different starter to play with. And this one is allegedly traceable back to 1847. It's interesting to have starters from various sources and see the differences in the breads you get.
If you decide to get the Oregon Trail starter, there's a note somewhere about which method to use to get it going. They recommend the one without potato skins or other additives, although the other version is also available, I guess for historic reasons.
As far as specific books for sourdough, most of the bread books I have include at least a section on sourdough, but now that I think of it, I don't have any that are exclusively sourdough.
However, you could adapt most commercial yeast recipes to use sourdough instead. The difference is going to be in the timing of the rising. The Bread Bible has information on how to do some converting.
As far as sourdough-only books, I just check an online bookseller, and most of what that had seemed iffy. However, there are 2 books by Ed Wood, who is considered one of sourdough's gurus (although there are those that disagree with him on some points.) In any case, one of the books was cheap the other was crazy expensive. I don't have either of them (yet!) but you might consider one of those.
dbcurrie at 12:59PM on 11/13/08
Peter Reinhart -- he has several books and a blog. His The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread is a great book.
Nancy Silverton of LaBrea Bakery and Mozza fame is also excellent. You can find some video of her with Julia Child making sourdough - from starter to finished bread - here. She of course has a cookbook too.
kjgibson at 2:43PM on 11/13/08
the better homes bread machine book. i have a few different ones and they are pretty good. but this one has so many good choices.
dearrie at 8:17PM on 11/13/08
Rose Levy-Berenbaum's Bread Bible has a fantastic chapter on sourdough.
sarahj at 11:23PM on 11/13/08
Thank you very much for the suggestions!
I will take a look at the books in the store and see which one looks good.
piehole at 10:51AM on 11/14/08